Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 248, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 21, 1998, 4:51 PM EDT for Walton County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 21, 1998, 4:51 PM EDT (20:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 21, 1998, 5:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Walton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 84 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1015 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KATL 212051 RRA SVRATL GAC297-212125- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 451 PM EDT TUE APR 21 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL AND NORTHERN WALTON COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 525 PM EDT * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... NICHOLASVILLE AROUND 500 PM EDT MOUNT VERNON AROUND 500 PM EDT CAMPTON AROUND 500 PM EDT BOLD SPRINGS AROUND 500 PM EDT GRATIS AROUND 510 PM EDT * AT 450 PM EDT... 3 MILES WEST OF MONROE... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR... MOVING NORTH 15 MPH. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...LIGHTNING POSES A SERIOUS DANGER. STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES...UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY. IF BOATING OR SWIMMING...GET TO LAND QUICKLY AND FIND SHELTER. IF IN THE OPEN FIND A LOW SPOT AWAY FROM TREES...FENCES...AND POLES. IF YOU EXPERIENCE STORM DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES OR TREES...OR HAIL THE SIZE OF DIMES OR LARGER...PLEASE REPORT IT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING 770-486-8535. WRS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 32 min |
| Apr 21, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper | 34 min |
| Apr 21, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Gwinnett, Hall | 46 min |
| Apr 21, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 46 min |
| Apr 21, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Putnam | 51 min |
| Apr 21, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 31 min |
| Apr 21, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Putnam | 50 min |
| Apr 21, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene | 35 min |
| Apr 21, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jones | 47 min |
| Apr 21, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock, Putnam | 48 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.